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South African government says it is mystified by the US announcement on 15 September that it is imposing punitive targeted travel sanctions on South Africans, because even the US ambassador to South Africa had publicly acknowledged that South Africa has addressed two of Washingtonâs five key domestic demands (the âfive asksâ).</p><p>Pretoria says it is engaging actively with the US on the other three demands and is making progress on resolving them.</p><p>Alistair Ruiters, President Cyril Ramaphosaâs special adviser and a key negotiator with the US for more than a year, said that over the past few days US ambassador Brent Bozell had been using two words: ârefusal and rejection⦠that we refuse to answer the question of the five asks [demands], [that] we reject the five asks.&nbsp;And thatâs so far from the truth.â</p><figure data-id=\"3208594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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(Photo: X) </figcaption></figure><p>He said Bozell himself had acknowledged in an interview with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https://www.businessday.co.za/politics/2026-09-22-watch-in-full-bozell-talks-us-sa-relations-bee-visa-restrictions-and-mbeki/\">
47Business Day</a> that SA had addressed the ask that Pretoria should not interfere in President Donald Trump administrationâs programme of offering refugee status to Afrikaners, whom it claims (without evidence) are being persecuted in SA.</p><p>Ruiters said Bozell had also acknowledged that SA had addressed the US demand that SA should rescind expropriation without compensation.</p><p>âWe both agree that the process is in the Constitutional Court. The ambassador agreed, so weâre waiting for the outcome.â</p><p>Ruiters added that in the Business Day interview published on Tuesday that Bozell had indicated âthat he thinks that itâs quite likely that the [Expropriation] Act will be declared unconstitutional and then weâll go back to the drawing board. So heâs happy with that.</p><p>âIf two out of the five asks have been addressed in the mind of the ambassador, why then the punitive action?â Ruiters asked.</p><p>He was referring to the announcement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 15<sup> </sup>September, that the US was imposing targeted visa restrictions on unnamed South Africans involved in ârace-based discrimination and incitement of imminent violence, as well as uncompensated land seizuresâ allegedly directed at Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa.</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-16-us-visa-restrictions-raise-the-stakes-in-its-escalating-dispute-with-sa/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">US visa restrictions raise the stakes in its escalating dispute with SA</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 16, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9OI7Abj_EiMTKvjWL1OzrjcYMWg=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/Peter-USsanctions6_791106.jpg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><h3>The five âasksâ</h3><p>This was three days after South Africa had sent a letter to Trump addressing in detail his questions about the five asks that Bozell had personally conveyed in a meeting with Ramaphosa on 27 August.</p><p>Rubio said South Africa had not adequately addressed these concerns, which Trump had raised in his executive order against South Africa in February 2025. In that order, Trump said that as a result of these concerns, he was offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US. Several hundred have already moved to the US.</p><figure data-id=\"3208586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg\" alt=\"Brent Bozell and Ramaphosa\" title=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a meeting with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Leo Brent Bozell III, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS)\" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/DH9rUrYIzqruaIyKGJLWtrQVKjA=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1E6b5T36IWGtZL6DsiMSPGT0oQ8=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qzr2GWhUAiCWbansIaE47Mz7Kfw=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qqtMzbX0C3EWTpLkn4_sTMmjMtk=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jjFSFvv6X63ot5kCSwpzG6bn184=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OANvKIlUugWMbpVvmjNNG38r
47jOM=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>(From left) The US ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane / GCIS) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters added that SA was âactively engagedâ with the US in trying to resolve the remaining three US âasksâ.</p><p>âWe have files and files of documents on all of these things.â</p><p>On the US objection to black economic empowerment (BEE), for instance, he said it was no accident that Ramaphosa had said in this yearâs State of the Nation address (Sona) that he was calling for a review of BEE, âto refine, realign and strengthen itâ.</p><p>And Ramaphosa had said that he would report back by the next Sona. âHe specifically says the initial phase of the review will focus on mining and telecommunication sectors.</p><p>âHeâs met with the minister of telecommunications [Solly Malatsi] on several occasions to have discussions about equity equivalence in the sector.â (Equity equivalence means allowing investors to contribute to transformation funds, for example, rather than ceding 30% equity in their businesses to South African entrepreneurs.)</p><p>âWeâre talking about that [â¦] all the time. This is not something weâre trying to avoid. Weâre trying to find solutions,â Ruiters said.</p><p>âWe communicate that to the US. What more do we have to do?</p><p>âBecause the president canât, by decree, say, âI announce that thereâs equity equivalence in the following sectorsâ. Weâre a constitutional democracy.â</p><p>On the US objection to the chanting of the Kill the Boer struggle song, Ruiters noted that Ramaphosa had signed into law the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/prevention-and-combating-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-act-16-2023-english-sepedi-14\">Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act 16 of 2023,</a> which criminalises hate crimes and hate speech against other races and ethnicities. (The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that chanting Kill the Boer is not hate speech)</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa would reinforce the message of opposition to hate crime and hate speech in future speeches as part of a systematic national campaign against crime including femicide.</p><p>On the fifth US âaskâ â that SA should address crimes against white farmers â Ruiters said Pretoria had communicated to the US that the national rural safety strategy had been implemented at 893 of 900 identified rural police stations.</p><p>âThe Presidency has also met with representatives of AfriForum and Solidarity to discuss rural safety, including discussing AfriForumâs rural safety submissions to the US embassy.â</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.â</p></blockquote><p>He confirmed that the US had also urged the government to meet several local interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, to discuss rural safety, which it had been doing regularly since last October or November. He said the US had even suggested it might pay for some of the measures to improve rural safety.</p><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.</p><p>âThese issues are also important to our country.&nbsp;BEE is something we need to talk about. Crime and rural safety is something we need to talk about as South Africans. None of these issues are stuff weâre trying to run away from. Weâre addressing it, but weâre addressing it as South Africans.â</p><p>
47âAnd if perhaps weâre not communicating effectively, then perhaps letâs talk about it.</p><p>âIâve engaged with the ambassador. So many hours have been spent talking to the ambassador. The reason why weâve resolved two issues is because of those discussions.â</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-10-ramaphosa-to-provide-timely-reply-to-trumps-five-asks/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">Ramaphosa to provide âtimelyâ reply to Trumpâs five asks</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 10, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1qlwFeMY6RW_hC8d-VZwgXJbKBE=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump1_495405.jpeg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><p>Describing the run-up to the present impasse, Ruiters said that Bozell had visited Washington last month and had then contacted the SA government to say he wanted to deliver a message directly&nbsp;from his president to President Ramaphosa.</p><p>Ramaphosa agreed, and so Bozell met Ramaphosa in the Union Buildings on 27 August (not 26 August as Daily Maverick has previously reported). He delivered the message from Trump verbally.</p><p>Ramaphosa gave his response in a letter addressed to Trump delivered on Saturday, 12 September, which set out the progress SA had made in addressing the five asks.</p><p>âUntil today, we have still not received a reply,â Ruiters said. The only responses had been Rubioâs announcement on X of visa restrictions and several media interviews by Bozell in which he had said things âwhich to us donât make senseâ.</p><p>âItâs difficult to understand, because weâre not quite sure why he hasnât said it to us directly,â Ruiters said, adding that he wondered why Bozell had âhas never had the courtesyâ of replying to Ramaphosaâs message, âwhich was not a rejection and not a refusalâ of Trumpâs demands. </p><p>âWe acceded to all the requests in our mind. We might not have said it in the language that they wanted; in the time frame that they wanted. But thatâs because we're a sovereign democratic country.</p><h3>âSA doesnât do things by decreeâ</h3><p>âWeâve got processes that are governed by our Constitution. We have to issue regulations, go through a process of public consultation. We donât do things by decree.â</p><p>Ruiters said he had held several meetings with Bozell over the past several months. Bozell had his cellphone number as well as that of South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer. </p><figure data-id=\"3208599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg\" alt=\"P4 Peter Roelf Interview\" title=\"Roelf Meyer presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May. \bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington/X \" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cCDPD8IIe27rU8DaPvJUSkkQalQ=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/hPwNwJFoDgziLOF6BvEPH2JeRbc=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cwFpq3CFT1EIwNgznS7m_VJ2Y8Y=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OCmj-mMUJJoQ-awDb6zaYo5HswE=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kEdJ09tGoq7Rzxv4cz4hO0VgQ7Q=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AesBZuGz54ENRuJTvD1NEfg--GQ=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, presents his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May 2026. (\bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington / X) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters said Bozell could have called both of them at any time to discu
47ss whatever problems America might have had with Ramaphosaâs letter, such as SAâs timeframes.</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â </p></blockquote><p>Instead, the US had not only taken punitive action, but Bozell had threatened more punitive action (on a post on X last week).</p><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â Ruiters asked of the US.</p><p>Ruiters said SA might disagree with the US demands, but in the interest of maintaining the strategic relationship it was ready to engage. âThe last thing we want [â¦] is job losses, loss of trade, loss of investments.â</p><p>He added that he was sure that Bozell felt the same. âHeâs come across as someone who seems extremely committed to South Africa. So I donât know where this is going.â</p><p>He stressed that the SA government remained ready to sit down and talk with the US to clarify and resolve the issues.</p><p>He said part of the strategic relationship with the US was access to minerals such as the platinum group metals, vanadium and rhodium, which SA had been supplying the US for decades. In his letter to Trump, Ramaphosa had committed himself to continue that supply and to discuss new projects to ensure strong supply chains into the US, while also ensuring SA benefitted by adding value in SA to the critical minerals.</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa had written in his letter to Trump that âwe want our commercial relationship to growâ and had added that there were âsubstantial opportunities to increase South African purchases from the United Statesâ.</p><h3>Trade and exports</h3><p>Ramaphosa had also said that he wanted to grow US exports in both goods and services to South Africa and had underscored that the US was South Africaâs second-largest trading partner overall and its largest services trade partner and the most significant supplier of critical minerals.</p><p>Ramaphosa had also told Trump in the letter that his ambassador, Bozell, had underscored that the reliable supply of the six critical minerals which SA exports to the US was a âkey priority for your administrationâ.</p><p>He had added that this was an area in which SA and US interests were closely aligned and where South Africa could make a direct and meaningful contribution to the economic and national security of the US.</p><p>Ruiters also clarified that the current negotiations were dealing only with US demands about South Africaâs domestic policy and not foreign policy.</p><p>He said when negotiations began last year, the US had had 14 âasksâ. 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47Business Day</a> that SA had addressed the ask that Pretoria should not interfere in President Donald Trump administrationâs programme of offering refugee status to Afrikaners, whom it claims (without evidence) are being persecuted in SA.</p><p>Ruiters said Bozell had also acknowledged that SA had addressed the US demand that SA should rescind expropriation without compensation.</p><p>âWe both agree that the process is in the Constitutional Court. The ambassador agreed, so weâre waiting for the outcome.â</p><p>Ruiters added that in the Business Day interview published on Tuesday that Bozell had indicated âthat he thinks that itâs quite likely that the [Expropriation] Act will be declared unconstitutional and then weâll go back to the drawing board. So heâs happy with that.</p><p>âIf two out of the five asks have been addressed in the mind of the ambassador, why then the punitive action?â Ruiters asked.</p><p>He was referring to the announcement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 15<sup> </sup>September, that the US was imposing targeted visa restrictions on unnamed South Africans involved in ârace-based discrimination and incitement of imminent violence, as well as uncompensated land seizuresâ allegedly directed at Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa.</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-16-us-visa-restrictions-raise-the-stakes-in-its-escalating-dispute-with-sa/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">US visa restrictions raise the stakes in its escalating dispute with SA</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 16, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9OI7Abj_EiMTKvjWL1OzrjcYMWg=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/Peter-USsanctions6_791106.jpg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><h3>The five âasksâ</h3><p>This was three days after South Africa had sent a letter to Trump addressing in detail his questions about the five asks that Bozell had personally conveyed in a meeting with Ramaphosa on 27 August.</p><p>Rubio said South Africa had not adequately addressed these concerns, which Trump had raised in his executive order against South Africa in February 2025. In that order, Trump said that as a result of these concerns, he was offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US. Several hundred have already moved to the US.</p><figure data-id=\"3208586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg\" alt=\"Brent Bozell and Ramaphosa\" title=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a meeting with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Leo Brent Bozell III, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS)\" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/DH9rUrYIzqruaIyKGJLWtrQVKjA=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1E6b5T36IWGtZL6DsiMSPGT0oQ8=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qzr2GWhUAiCWbansIaE47Mz7Kfw=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qqtMzbX0C3EWTpLkn4_sTMmjMtk=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jjFSFvv6X63ot5kCSwpzG6bn184=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OANvKIlUugWMbpVvmjNNG38r
47jOM=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>(From left) The US ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane / GCIS) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters added that SA was âactively engagedâ with the US in trying to resolve the remaining three US âasksâ.</p><p>âWe have files and files of documents on all of these things.â</p><p>On the US objection to black economic empowerment (BEE), for instance, he said it was no accident that Ramaphosa had said in this yearâs State of the Nation address (Sona) that he was calling for a review of BEE, âto refine, realign and strengthen itâ.</p><p>And Ramaphosa had said that he would report back by the next Sona. âHe specifically says the initial phase of the review will focus on mining and telecommunication sectors.</p><p>âHeâs met with the minister of telecommunications [Solly Malatsi] on several occasions to have discussions about equity equivalence in the sector.â (Equity equivalence means allowing investors to contribute to transformation funds, for example, rather than ceding 30% equity in their businesses to South African entrepreneurs.)</p><p>âWeâre talking about that [â¦] all the time. This is not something weâre trying to avoid. Weâre trying to find solutions,â Ruiters said.</p><p>âWe communicate that to the US. What more do we have to do?</p><p>âBecause the president canât, by decree, say, âI announce that thereâs equity equivalence in the following sectorsâ. Weâre a constitutional democracy.â</p><p>On the US objection to the chanting of the Kill the Boer struggle song, Ruiters noted that Ramaphosa had signed into law the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/prevention-and-combating-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-act-16-2023-english-sepedi-14\">Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act 16 of 2023,</a> which criminalises hate crimes and hate speech against other races and ethnicities. (The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that chanting Kill the Boer is not hate speech)</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa would reinforce the message of opposition to hate crime and hate speech in future speeches as part of a systematic national campaign against crime including femicide.</p><p>On the fifth US âaskâ â that SA should address crimes against white farmers â Ruiters said Pretoria had communicated to the US that the national rural safety strategy had been implemented at 893 of 900 identified rural police stations.</p><p>âThe Presidency has also met with representatives of AfriForum and Solidarity to discuss rural safety, including discussing AfriForumâs rural safety submissions to the US embassy.â</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.â</p></blockquote><p>He confirmed that the US had also urged the government to meet several local interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, to discuss rural safety, which it had been doing regularly since last October or November. He said the US had even suggested it might pay for some of the measures to improve rural safety.</p><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.</p><p>âThese issues are also important to our country.&nbsp;BEE is something we need to talk about. Crime and rural safety is something we need to talk about as South Africans. None of these issues are stuff weâre trying to run away from. Weâre addressing it, but weâre addressing it as South Africans.â</p><p>
47âAnd if perhaps weâre not communicating effectively, then perhaps letâs talk about it.</p><p>âIâve engaged with the ambassador. So many hours have been spent talking to the ambassador. The reason why weâve resolved two issues is because of those discussions.â</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-10-ramaphosa-to-provide-timely-reply-to-trumps-five-asks/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">Ramaphosa to provide âtimelyâ reply to Trumpâs five asks</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 10, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1qlwFeMY6RW_hC8d-VZwgXJbKBE=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump1_495405.jpeg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><p>Describing the run-up to the present impasse, Ruiters said that Bozell had visited Washington last month and had then contacted the SA government to say he wanted to deliver a message directly&nbsp;from his president to President Ramaphosa.</p><p>Ramaphosa agreed, and so Bozell met Ramaphosa in the Union Buildings on 27 August (not 26 August as Daily Maverick has previously reported). He delivered the message from Trump verbally.</p><p>Ramaphosa gave his response in a letter addressed to Trump delivered on Saturday, 12 September, which set out the progress SA had made in addressing the five asks.</p><p>âUntil today, we have still not received a reply,â Ruiters said. The only responses had been Rubioâs announcement on X of visa restrictions and several media interviews by Bozell in which he had said things âwhich to us donât make senseâ.</p><p>âItâs difficult to understand, because weâre not quite sure why he hasnât said it to us directly,â Ruiters said, adding that he wondered why Bozell had âhas never had the courtesyâ of replying to Ramaphosaâs message, âwhich was not a rejection and not a refusalâ of Trumpâs demands. </p><p>âWe acceded to all the requests in our mind. We might not have said it in the language that they wanted; in the time frame that they wanted. But thatâs because we're a sovereign democratic country.</p><h3>âSA doesnât do things by decreeâ</h3><p>âWeâve got processes that are governed by our Constitution. We have to issue regulations, go through a process of public consultation. We donât do things by decree.â</p><p>Ruiters said he had held several meetings with Bozell over the past several months. Bozell had his cellphone number as well as that of South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer. </p><figure data-id=\"3208599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg\" alt=\"P4 Peter Roelf Interview\" title=\"Roelf Meyer presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May. \bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington/X \" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cCDPD8IIe27rU8DaPvJUSkkQalQ=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/hPwNwJFoDgziLOF6BvEPH2JeRbc=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cwFpq3CFT1EIwNgznS7m_VJ2Y8Y=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OCmj-mMUJJoQ-awDb6zaYo5HswE=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kEdJ09tGoq7Rzxv4cz4hO0VgQ7Q=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AesBZuGz54ENRuJTvD1NEfg--GQ=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, presents his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May 2026. (\bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington / X) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters said Bozell could have called both of them at any time to discu
47ss whatever problems America might have had with Ramaphosaâs letter, such as SAâs timeframes.</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â </p></blockquote><p>Instead, the US had not only taken punitive action, but Bozell had threatened more punitive action (on a post on X last week).</p><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â Ruiters asked of the US.</p><p>Ruiters said SA might disagree with the US demands, but in the interest of maintaining the strategic relationship it was ready to engage. âThe last thing we want [â¦] is job losses, loss of trade, loss of investments.â</p><p>He added that he was sure that Bozell felt the same. âHeâs come across as someone who seems extremely committed to South Africa. So I donât know where this is going.â</p><p>He stressed that the SA government remained ready to sit down and talk with the US to clarify and resolve the issues.</p><p>He said part of the strategic relationship with the US was access to minerals such as the platinum group metals, vanadium and rhodium, which SA had been supplying the US for decades. In his letter to Trump, Ramaphosa had committed himself to continue that supply and to discuss new projects to ensure strong supply chains into the US, while also ensuring SA benefitted by adding value in SA to the critical minerals.</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa had written in his letter to Trump that âwe want our commercial relationship to growâ and had added that there were âsubstantial opportunities to increase South African purchases from the United Statesâ.</p><h3>Trade and exports</h3><p>Ramaphosa had also said that he wanted to grow US exports in both goods and services to South Africa and had underscored that the US was South Africaâs second-largest trading partner overall and its largest services trade partner and the most significant supplier of critical minerals.</p><p>Ramaphosa had also told Trump in the letter that his ambassador, Bozell, had underscored that the reliable supply of the six critical minerals which SA exports to the US was a âkey priority for your administrationâ.</p><p>He had added that this was an area in which SA and US interests were closely aligned and where South Africa could make a direct and meaningful contribution to the economic and national security of the US.</p><p>Ruiters also clarified that the current negotiations were dealing only with US demands about South Africaâs domestic policy and not foreign policy.</p><p>He said when negotiations began last year, the US had had 14 âasksâ. 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47Business Day</a> that SA had addressed the ask that Pretoria should not interfere in President Donald Trump administrationâs programme of offering refugee status to Afrikaners, whom it claims (without evidence) are being persecuted in SA.</p><p>Ruiters said Bozell had also acknowledged that SA had addressed the US demand that SA should rescind expropriation without compensation.</p><p>âWe both agree that the process is in the Constitutional Court. The ambassador agreed, so weâre waiting for the outcome.â</p><p>Ruiters added that in the Business Day interview published on Tuesday that Bozell had indicated âthat he thinks that itâs quite likely that the [Expropriation] Act will be declared unconstitutional and then weâll go back to the drawing board. So heâs happy with that.</p><p>âIf two out of the five asks have been addressed in the mind of the ambassador, why then the punitive action?â Ruiters asked.</p><p>He was referring to the announcement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 15<sup> </sup>September, that the US was imposing targeted visa restrictions on unnamed South Africans involved in ârace-based discrimination and incitement of imminent violence, as well as uncompensated land seizuresâ allegedly directed at Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa.</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-16-us-visa-restrictions-raise-the-stakes-in-its-escalating-dispute-with-sa/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">US visa restrictions raise the stakes in its escalating dispute with SA</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 16, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9OI7Abj_EiMTKvjWL1OzrjcYMWg=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/Peter-USsanctions6_791106.jpg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><h3>The five âasksâ</h3><p>This was three days after South Africa had sent a letter to Trump addressing in detail his questions about the five asks that Bozell had personally conveyed in a meeting with Ramaphosa on 27 August.</p><p>Rubio said South Africa had not adequately addressed these concerns, which Trump had raised in his executive order against South Africa in February 2025. In that order, Trump said that as a result of these concerns, he was offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US. Several hundred have already moved to the US.</p><figure data-id=\"3208586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg\" alt=\"Brent Bozell and Ramaphosa\" title=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a meeting with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Leo Brent Bozell III, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS)\" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/DH9rUrYIzqruaIyKGJLWtrQVKjA=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1E6b5T36IWGtZL6DsiMSPGT0oQ8=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qzr2GWhUAiCWbansIaE47Mz7Kfw=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qqtMzbX0C3EWTpLkn4_sTMmjMtk=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jjFSFvv6X63ot5kCSwpzG6bn184=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OANvKIlUugWMbpVvmjNNG38r
47jOM=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>(From left) The US ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane / GCIS) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters added that SA was âactively engagedâ with the US in trying to resolve the remaining three US âasksâ.</p><p>âWe have files and files of documents on all of these things.â</p><p>On the US objection to black economic empowerment (BEE), for instance, he said it was no accident that Ramaphosa had said in this yearâs State of the Nation address (Sona) that he was calling for a review of BEE, âto refine, realign and strengthen itâ.</p><p>And Ramaphosa had said that he would report back by the next Sona. âHe specifically says the initial phase of the review will focus on mining and telecommunication sectors.</p><p>âHeâs met with the minister of telecommunications [Solly Malatsi] on several occasions to have discussions about equity equivalence in the sector.â (Equity equivalence means allowing investors to contribute to transformation funds, for example, rather than ceding 30% equity in their businesses to South African entrepreneurs.)</p><p>âWeâre talking about that [â¦] all the time. This is not something weâre trying to avoid. Weâre trying to find solutions,â Ruiters said.</p><p>âWe communicate that to the US. What more do we have to do?</p><p>âBecause the president canât, by decree, say, âI announce that thereâs equity equivalence in the following sectorsâ. Weâre a constitutional democracy.â</p><p>On the US objection to the chanting of the Kill the Boer struggle song, Ruiters noted that Ramaphosa had signed into law the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/prevention-and-combating-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-act-16-2023-english-sepedi-14\">Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act 16 of 2023,</a> which criminalises hate crimes and hate speech against other races and ethnicities. (The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that chanting Kill the Boer is not hate speech)</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa would reinforce the message of opposition to hate crime and hate speech in future speeches as part of a systematic national campaign against crime including femicide.</p><p>On the fifth US âaskâ â that SA should address crimes against white farmers â Ruiters said Pretoria had communicated to the US that the national rural safety strategy had been implemented at 893 of 900 identified rural police stations.</p><p>âThe Presidency has also met with representatives of AfriForum and Solidarity to discuss rural safety, including discussing AfriForumâs rural safety submissions to the US embassy.â</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.â</p></blockquote><p>He confirmed that the US had also urged the government to meet several local interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, to discuss rural safety, which it had been doing regularly since last October or November. He said the US had even suggested it might pay for some of the measures to improve rural safety.</p><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.</p><p>âThese issues are also important to our country.&nbsp;BEE is something we need to talk about. Crime and rural safety is something we need to talk about as South Africans. None of these issues are stuff weâre trying to run away from. Weâre addressing it, but weâre addressing it as South Africans.â</p><p>
47âAnd if perhaps weâre not communicating effectively, then perhaps letâs talk about it.</p><p>âIâve engaged with the ambassador. So many hours have been spent talking to the ambassador. The reason why weâve resolved two issues is because of those discussions.â</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-10-ramaphosa-to-provide-timely-reply-to-trumps-five-asks/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">Ramaphosa to provide âtimelyâ reply to Trumpâs five asks</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 10, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1qlwFeMY6RW_hC8d-VZwgXJbKBE=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump1_495405.jpeg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><p>Describing the run-up to the present impasse, Ruiters said that Bozell had visited Washington last month and had then contacted the SA government to say he wanted to deliver a message directly&nbsp;from his president to President Ramaphosa.</p><p>Ramaphosa agreed, and so Bozell met Ramaphosa in the Union Buildings on 27 August (not 26 August as Daily Maverick has previously reported). He delivered the message from Trump verbally.</p><p>Ramaphosa gave his response in a letter addressed to Trump delivered on Saturday, 12 September, which set out the progress SA had made in addressing the five asks.</p><p>âUntil today, we have still not received a reply,â Ruiters said. The only responses had been Rubioâs announcement on X of visa restrictions and several media interviews by Bozell in which he had said things âwhich to us donât make senseâ.</p><p>âItâs difficult to understand, because weâre not quite sure why he hasnât said it to us directly,â Ruiters said, adding that he wondered why Bozell had âhas never had the courtesyâ of replying to Ramaphosaâs message, âwhich was not a rejection and not a refusalâ of Trumpâs demands. </p><p>âWe acceded to all the requests in our mind. We might not have said it in the language that they wanted; in the time frame that they wanted. But thatâs because we're a sovereign democratic country.</p><h3>âSA doesnât do things by decreeâ</h3><p>âWeâve got processes that are governed by our Constitution. We have to issue regulations, go through a process of public consultation. We donât do things by decree.â</p><p>Ruiters said he had held several meetings with Bozell over the past several months. Bozell had his cellphone number as well as that of South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer. </p><figure data-id=\"3208599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg\" alt=\"P4 Peter Roelf Interview\" title=\"Roelf Meyer presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May. \bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington/X \" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cCDPD8IIe27rU8DaPvJUSkkQalQ=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/hPwNwJFoDgziLOF6BvEPH2JeRbc=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cwFpq3CFT1EIwNgznS7m_VJ2Y8Y=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OCmj-mMUJJoQ-awDb6zaYo5HswE=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kEdJ09tGoq7Rzxv4cz4hO0VgQ7Q=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AesBZuGz54ENRuJTvD1NEfg--GQ=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, presents his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May 2026. (\bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington / X) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters said Bozell could have called both of them at any time to discu
47ss whatever problems America might have had with Ramaphosaâs letter, such as SAâs timeframes.</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â </p></blockquote><p>Instead, the US had not only taken punitive action, but Bozell had threatened more punitive action (on a post on X last week).</p><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â Ruiters asked of the US.</p><p>Ruiters said SA might disagree with the US demands, but in the interest of maintaining the strategic relationship it was ready to engage. âThe last thing we want [â¦] is job losses, loss of trade, loss of investments.â</p><p>He added that he was sure that Bozell felt the same. âHeâs come across as someone who seems extremely committed to South Africa. So I donât know where this is going.â</p><p>He stressed that the SA government remained ready to sit down and talk with the US to clarify and resolve the issues.</p><p>He said part of the strategic relationship with the US was access to minerals such as the platinum group metals, vanadium and rhodium, which SA had been supplying the US for decades. In his letter to Trump, Ramaphosa had committed himself to continue that supply and to discuss new projects to ensure strong supply chains into the US, while also ensuring SA benefitted by adding value in SA to the critical minerals.</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa had written in his letter to Trump that âwe want our commercial relationship to growâ and had added that there were âsubstantial opportunities to increase South African purchases from the United Statesâ.</p><h3>Trade and exports</h3><p>Ramaphosa had also said that he wanted to grow US exports in both goods and services to South Africa and had underscored that the US was South Africaâs second-largest trading partner overall and its largest services trade partner and the most significant supplier of critical minerals.</p><p>Ramaphosa had also told Trump in the letter that his ambassador, Bozell, had underscored that the reliable supply of the six critical minerals which SA exports to the US was a âkey priority for your administrationâ.</p><p>He had added that this was an area in which SA and US interests were closely aligned and where South Africa could make a direct and meaningful contribution to the economic and national security of the US.</p><p>Ruiters also clarified that the current negotiations were dealing only with US demands about South Africaâs domestic policy and not foreign policy.</p><p>He said when negotiations began last year, the US had had 14 âasksâ. 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47caption></figure><p>He said Bozell himself had acknowledged in an interview with <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.businessday.co.za/politics/2026-09-22-watch-in-full-bozell-talks-us-sa-relations-bee-visa-restrictions-and-mbeki/">Business Day</a> that SA had addressed the ask that Pretoria should not interfere in President Donald Trump administrationâs programme of offering refugee status to Afrikaners, whom it claims (without evidence) are being persecuted in SA.</p><p>Ruiters said Bozell had also acknowledged that SA had addressed the US demand that SA should rescind expropriation without compensation.</p><p>âWe both agree that the process is in the Constitutional Court. The ambassador agreed, so weâre waiting for the outcome.â</p><p>Ruiters added that in the Business Day interview published on Tuesday that Bozell had indicated âthat he thinks that itâs quite likely that the [Expropriation] Act will be declared unconstitutional and then weâll go back to the drawing board. So heâs happy with that.</p><p>âIf two out of the five asks have been addressed in the mind of the ambassador, why then the punitive action?â Ruiters asked.</p><p>He was referring to the announcement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 15<sup> </sup>September, that the US was imposing targeted visa restrictions on unnamed South Africans involved in ârace-based discrimination and incitement of imminent violence, as well as uncompensated land seizuresâ allegedly directed at Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa.</p><div><div class="inline-embedded-article"> <a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-16-us-visa-restrictions-raise-the-stakes-in-its-escalating-dispute-with-sa/"> <div class="article-info"> <div class="inline-embedded-article-title">READ MORE</div> <div class="inline-embedded-article-teaser">US visa restrictions raise the stakes in its escalating dispute with SA</div> <div class="inline-embedded-article-date">September 16, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9OI7Abj_EiMTKvjWL1OzrjcYMWg=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/Peter-USsanctions6_791106.jpg"/></figure> </a> </div></div><h3>The five âasksâ</h3><p>This was three days after South Africa had sent a letter to Trump addressing in detail his questions about the five asks that Bozell had personally conveyed in a meeting with Ramaphosa on 27 August.</p><p>Rubio said South Africa had not adequately addressed these concerns, which Trump had raised in his executive order against South Africa in February 2025. In that order, Trump said that as a result of these concerns, he was offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US. Several hundred have already moved to the US.</p><figure data-id="3208586"><img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg" alt="Brent Bozell and Ramaphosa" title="President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a meeting with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Leo Brent Bozell III, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS)" srcset="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/DH9rUrYIzqruaIyKGJLWtrQVKjA=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1E6b5T36IWGtZL6DsiMSPGT0oQ8=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qzr2GWhUAiCWbansIaE47Mz7Kfw=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qqtMzbX0C3EWTpLkn4_sTMmjMtk=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jjFSFvv6X63ot5kCSwpzG6bn184=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OANvKIlUugWMbpVvmjNNG38r
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(Photo: Elmond Jiyane / GCIS) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters added that SA was âactively engagedâ with the US in trying to resolve the remaining three US âasksâ.</p><p>âWe have files and files of documents on all of these things.â</p><p>On the US objection to black economic empowerment (BEE), for instance, he said it was no accident that Ramaphosa had said in this yearâs State of the Nation address (Sona) that he was calling for a review of BEE, âto refine, realign and strengthen itâ.</p><p>And Ramaphosa had said that he would report back by the next Sona. âHe specifically says the initial phase of the review will focus on mining and telecommunication sectors.</p><p>âHeâs met with the minister of telecommunications [Solly Malatsi] on several occasions to have discussions about equity equivalence in the sector.â (Equity equivalence means allowing investors to contribute to transformation funds, for example, rather than ceding 30% equity in their businesses to South African entrepreneurs.)</p><p>âWeâre talking about that [â¦] all the time. This is not something weâre trying to avoid. Weâre trying to find solutions,â Ruiters said.</p><p>âWe communicate that to the US. What more do we have to do?</p><p>âBecause the president canât, by decree, say, âI announce that thereâs equity equivalence in the following sectorsâ. Weâre a constitutional democracy.â</p><p>On the US objection to the chanting of the Kill the Boer struggle song, Ruiters noted that Ramaphosa had signed into law the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/prevention-and-combating-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-act-16-2023-english-sepedi-14">Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act 16 of 2023,</a> which criminalises hate crimes and hate speech against other races and ethnicities. (The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that chanting Kill the Boer is not hate speech)</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa would reinforce the message of opposition to hate crime and hate speech in future speeches as part of a systematic national campaign against crime including femicide.</p><p>On the fifth US âaskâ â that SA should address crimes against white farmers â Ruiters said Pretoria had communicated to the US that the national rural safety strategy had been implemented at 893 of 900 identified rural police stations.</p><p>âThe Presidency has also met with representatives of AfriForum and Solidarity to discuss rural safety, including discussing AfriForumâs rural safety submissions to the US embassy.â</p><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.â</p></blockquote><p>He confirmed that the US had also urged the government to meet several local interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, to discuss rural safety, which it had been doing regularly since last October or November. He said the US had even suggested it might pay for some of the measures to improve rural safety.</p><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.</p><p>âThese issues are also important to our country. BEE is something we need to talk about. Crime and rural safety is something we need to talk about as South Africans. None of these issues are stuff weâre trying to run away from. Weâre addressing it, but weâre addressing it as South Africans.â</p><p>âAnd if perhaps weâre not communicating effectively, then perhaps letâs talk about it.</p><p>âIâve engaged with the ambassador. So many hours have been spent talking to the ambassador. The reason why weâve resolved two issues is because of those discussions.â</p><div><div class="inline-embedded-article"> <a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-10-ramaphosa-to-provide-timely-reply-to-trumps-five-asks/"> <div class="article-info"> <div class="inline-embedded-article-title">READ MORE</div> <div class="inline-embedded-article-teaser">Ramaphosa to provide âtimelyâ reply to Trumpâs five asks</div> <div class="inline-embedded-article-date">September 10, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1qlwFeMY6RW_hC8d-VZwgXJbKBE=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump1_495405.jpeg"/></figure> </a> </div></div><p>Describing the run-up to the present impasse, Ruiters said that Bozell had visited Washington last month and had then contacted the SA government to say he wanted to deliver a message directly from his president to President Ramaphosa.</p><p>Ramaphosa agreed, and so Bozell met Ramaphosa in the Union Buildings on 27 August (not 26 August as Daily Maverick has previously reported). He delivered the message from Trump verbally.</p><p>Ramaphosa gave his response in a letter addressed to Trump delivered on Saturday, 12 September, which set out the progress SA had made in addressing the five asks.</p><p>âUntil today, we have still not received a reply,â Ruiters said. The only responses had been Rubioâs announcement on X of visa restrictions and several media interviews by Bozell in which he had said things âwhich to us donât make senseâ.</p><p>âItâs difficult to understand, because weâre not quite sure why he hasnât said it to us directly,â Ruiters said, adding that he wondered why Bozell had âhas never had the courtesyâ of replying to Ramaphosaâs message, âwhich was not a rejection and not a refusalâ of Trumpâs demands. </p><p>âWe acceded to all the requests in our mind. We might not have said it in the language that they wanted; in the time frame that they wanted. But thatâs because we're a sovereign democratic country.</p><h3>âSA doesnât do things by decreeâ</h3><p>âWeâve got processes that are governed by our Constitution. We have to issue regulations, go through a process of public consultation. We donât do things by decree.â</p><p>Ruiters said he had held several meetings with Bozell over the past several months. Bozell had his cellphone number as well as that of South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer. </p><figure data-id="3208599"><img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg" alt="P4 Peter Roelf Interview" title="Roelf Meyer presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May. �Photo: South African Embassy, Washington/X " srcset="https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cCDPD8IIe27rU8DaPvJUSkkQalQ=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/hPwNwJFoDgziLOF6BvEPH2JeRbc=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cwFpq3CFT1EIwNgznS7m_VJ2Y8Y=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OCmj-mMUJJoQ-awDb6zaYo5HswE=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kEdJ09tGoq7Rzxv4cz4hO0VgQ7Q=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AesBZuGz54ENRuJTvD1NEfg--GQ=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 400w" draggable="false" contenteditable="false" style="object-position: 50% 50%;"><figcaption>South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, presents his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May 2026. (�Photo: South African Embassy, Washington / X) </fig
47caption></figure><p>Ruiters said Bozell could have called both of them at any time to discuss whatever problems America might have had with Ramaphosaâs letter, such as SAâs timeframes.</p><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â </p></blockquote><p>Instead, the US had not only taken punitive action, but Bozell had threatened more punitive action (on a post on X last week).</p><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â Ruiters asked of the US.</p><p>Ruiters said SA might disagree with the US demands, but in the interest of maintaining the strategic relationship it was ready to engage. âThe last thing we want [â¦] is job losses, loss of trade, loss of investments.â</p><p>He added that he was sure that Bozell felt the same. âHeâs come across as someone who seems extremely committed to South Africa. So I donât know where this is going.â</p><p>He stressed that the SA government remained ready to sit down and talk with the US to clarify and resolve the issues.</p><p>He said part of the strategic relationship with the US was access to minerals such as the platinum group metals, vanadium and rhodium, which SA had been supplying the US for decades. In his letter to Trump, Ramaphosa had committed himself to continue that supply and to discuss new projects to ensure strong supply chains into the US, while also ensuring SA benefitted by adding value in SA to the critical minerals.</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa had written in his letter to Trump that âwe want our commercial relationship to growâ and had added that there were âsubstantial opportunities to increase South African purchases from the United Statesâ.</p><h3>Trade and exports</h3><p>Ramaphosa had also said that he wanted to grow US exports in both goods and services to South Africa and had underscored that the US was South Africaâs second-largest trading partner overall and its largest services trade partner and the most significant supplier of critical minerals.</p><p>Ramaphosa had also told Trump in the letter that his ambassador, Bozell, had underscored that the reliable supply of the six critical minerals which SA exports to the US was a âkey priority for your administrationâ.</p><p>He had added that this was an area in which SA and US interests were closely aligned and where South Africa could make a direct and meaningful contribution to the economic and national security of the US.</p><p>Ruiters also clarified that the current negotiations were dealing only with US demands about South Africaâs domestic policy and not foreign policy.</p><p>He said when negotiations began last year, the US had had 14 âasksâ. But he had insisted these should be consolidated, which they were, to the current five.</p><p>Ruiters also disclosed that the US and SA had agreed to separate out geopolitical issues (such as South Africa taking Israel to the International Court of Justice over Gaza) from the domestic ones.</p><p>The US still has eight geopolitical asks but negotiations on these would only start when, or if, the five domestic asks have been resolved. <strong>DM</strong></p></p><!----></div></div><!--]--> <!--[-1--><!--]--> <!--[-1--><!--]--> <!--[-1--><!--]--></div><!--]--><!--astro:end--></astro-island><div id="post-article-footer" class="mb-2"></div><div class="mb-12"><astro-island uid="ZJ2xT0" component-url="/_astro/index.CQtT38wQ.js" component-export="SocialShare" renderer-url="/_astro/client.svelte.DV5olglm.js" props="{"article":[0,{"objectType":[0,"Article"],"id":[0,"2997188"],"signature":[0,"Article:2997188"],"url":[0,"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-24-pretoria-puzzled-by-punitive-us-travel-bans-what-more-must-we-do/"],"shorturl":[0,"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2997188"],"slug":[0,"pretoria-puzzled-by-punitive-us-travel-bans-what-more-must-we-do"],"contentType":[0,{"id":[0,"1"],"name":[0,"Article"],"slug":[0,"article"],"editor":[0,"tiptap"]}],"views":[0,2145],"comments":[0,2],"preview_limit":[0,null],"rating":[0,0],"excludedFromGoogleSearchEngine":[0,0],"status":[0,"publish"],"title":[0,"Pretoria puzzled by punitive US travel bans â âWhat more must we do?â"],"firstPublished":[0,"2026-09-24T05:30:00"],"lastUpdate":[0,"2026-09-24T05:30:00"],"categories":[1,[[0,{"id":[0,"387188"],"name":[0,"Maverick News"],"seo_name":[0,""],"signature":[0,"Category:387188"],"slug":[0,"maverick-news"],"typeId":[0,{"typeId":[0,"1"],"name":[0,"Daily Maverick"],"slug":[0,""],"includeInIssue":[0,"0"],"shortened_domain":[0,""],"stylesheetClass":[0,""],"domain":[0,"www.dailymaverick.co.za"],"articleUrlPrefix":[0,""],"access_groups":[0,"[]"],"locale":[0,"en-US"],"preview_limit":[0,null],"sitemapUrlPrefix":[0,null],"theme":[0,"{\"brandName\":\"Daily Maverick\",\"logoUrl\":\"\",\"fontFamilyBase\":\"system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \\\"Segoe UI\\\", sans-serif\",\"fontFamilyHeadline\":\"Georgia, \\\"Times New Roman\\\", serif\",\"colorPrimary\":\"#0057b8\",\"colorPrimaryContrast\":\"#ffffff\",\"colorSecondary\":\"#111111\",\"
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47Business Day</a> that SA had addressed the ask that Pretoria should not interfere in President Donald Trump administrationâs programme of offering refugee status to Afrikaners, whom it claims (without evidence) are being persecuted in SA.</p><p>Ruiters said Bozell had also acknowledged that SA had addressed the US demand that SA should rescind expropriation without compensation.</p><p>âWe both agree that the process is in the Constitutional Court. The ambassador agreed, so weâre waiting for the outcome.â</p><p>Ruiters added that in the Business Day interview published on Tuesday that Bozell had indicated âthat he thinks that itâs quite likely that the [Expropriation] Act will be declared unconstitutional and then weâll go back to the drawing board. So heâs happy with that.</p><p>âIf two out of the five asks have been addressed in the mind of the ambassador, why then the punitive action?â Ruiters asked.</p><p>He was referring to the announcement on X by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on 15<sup> </sup>September, that the US was imposing targeted visa restrictions on unnamed South Africans involved in ârace-based discrimination and incitement of imminent violence, as well as uncompensated land seizuresâ allegedly directed at Afrikaners and other minorities in South Africa.</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-16-us-visa-restrictions-raise-the-stakes-in-its-escalating-dispute-with-sa/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">US visa restrictions raise the stakes in its escalating dispute with SA</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 16, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/9OI7Abj_EiMTKvjWL1OzrjcYMWg=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/Peter-USsanctions6_791106.jpg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><h3>The five âasksâ</h3><p>This was three days after South Africa had sent a letter to Trump addressing in detail his questions about the five asks that Bozell had personally conveyed in a meeting with Ramaphosa on 27 August.</p><p>Rubio said South Africa had not adequately addressed these concerns, which Trump had raised in his executive order against South Africa in February 2025. In that order, Trump said that as a result of these concerns, he was offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US. Several hundred have already moved to the US.</p><figure data-id=\"3208586\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg\" alt=\"Brent Bozell and Ramaphosa\" title=\"President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a meeting with the United States Ambassador to South Africa, His Excellency Leo Brent Bozell III, at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, his official residence in Tshwane. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane/GCIS)\" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/Y9XfQbj6kHotOos2QYdBSHiXsmo=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/DH9rUrYIzqruaIyKGJLWtrQVKjA=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1E6b5T36IWGtZL6DsiMSPGT0oQ8=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qzr2GWhUAiCWbansIaE47Mz7Kfw=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/qqtMzbX0C3EWTpLkn4_sTMmjMtk=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/jjFSFvv6X63ot5kCSwpzG6bn184=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OANvKIlUugWMbpVvmjNNG38r
47jOM=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump3_985648.jpeg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>(From left) The US ambassador to South Africa, Brent Bozell, meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria. (Photo: Elmond Jiyane / GCIS) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters added that SA was âactively engagedâ with the US in trying to resolve the remaining three US âasksâ.</p><p>âWe have files and files of documents on all of these things.â</p><p>On the US objection to black economic empowerment (BEE), for instance, he said it was no accident that Ramaphosa had said in this yearâs State of the Nation address (Sona) that he was calling for a review of BEE, âto refine, realign and strengthen itâ.</p><p>And Ramaphosa had said that he would report back by the next Sona. âHe specifically says the initial phase of the review will focus on mining and telecommunication sectors.</p><p>âHeâs met with the minister of telecommunications [Solly Malatsi] on several occasions to have discussions about equity equivalence in the sector.â (Equity equivalence means allowing investors to contribute to transformation funds, for example, rather than ceding 30% equity in their businesses to South African entrepreneurs.)</p><p>âWeâre talking about that [â¦] all the time. This is not something weâre trying to avoid. Weâre trying to find solutions,â Ruiters said.</p><p>âWe communicate that to the US. What more do we have to do?</p><p>âBecause the president canât, by decree, say, âI announce that thereâs equity equivalence in the following sectorsâ. Weâre a constitutional democracy.â</p><p>On the US objection to the chanting of the Kill the Boer struggle song, Ruiters noted that Ramaphosa had signed into law the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/prevention-and-combating-hate-crimes-and-hate-speech-act-16-2023-english-sepedi-14\">Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Act 16 of 2023,</a> which criminalises hate crimes and hate speech against other races and ethnicities. (The Constitutional Court has, however, ruled that chanting Kill the Boer is not hate speech)</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa would reinforce the message of opposition to hate crime and hate speech in future speeches as part of a systematic national campaign against crime including femicide.</p><p>On the fifth US âaskâ â that SA should address crimes against white farmers â Ruiters said Pretoria had communicated to the US that the national rural safety strategy had been implemented at 893 of 900 identified rural police stations.</p><p>âThe Presidency has also met with representatives of AfriForum and Solidarity to discuss rural safety, including discussing AfriForumâs rural safety submissions to the US embassy.â</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.â</p></blockquote><p>He confirmed that the US had also urged the government to meet several local interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, to discuss rural safety, which it had been doing regularly since last October or November. He said the US had even suggested it might pay for some of the measures to improve rural safety.</p><p>âWeâre not trying to fabricate, or obfuscate. Weâre basically saying to them, we are committed to dealing with these issues.</p><p>âThese issues are also important to our country.&nbsp;BEE is something we need to talk about. Crime and rural safety is something we need to talk about as South Africans. None of these issues are stuff weâre trying to run away from. Weâre addressing it, but weâre addressing it as South Africans.â</p><p>
47âAnd if perhaps weâre not communicating effectively, then perhaps letâs talk about it.</p><p>âIâve engaged with the ambassador. So many hours have been spent talking to the ambassador. The reason why weâve resolved two issues is because of those discussions.â</p><div><div class=\"inline-embedded-article\"> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-10-ramaphosa-to-provide-timely-reply-to-trumps-five-asks/\"> <div class=\"article-info\"> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-title\">READ MORE</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-teaser\">Ramaphosa to provide âtimelyâ reply to Trumpâs five asks</div> <div class=\"inline-embedded-article-date\">September 10, 2026</div> </div> <figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/1qlwFeMY6RW_hC8d-VZwgXJbKBE=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/orphans/CRpondershisreplytoTrump1_495405.jpeg\"/></figure> </a> </div></div><p>Describing the run-up to the present impasse, Ruiters said that Bozell had visited Washington last month and had then contacted the SA government to say he wanted to deliver a message directly&nbsp;from his president to President Ramaphosa.</p><p>Ramaphosa agreed, and so Bozell met Ramaphosa in the Union Buildings on 27 August (not 26 August as Daily Maverick has previously reported). He delivered the message from Trump verbally.</p><p>Ramaphosa gave his response in a letter addressed to Trump delivered on Saturday, 12 September, which set out the progress SA had made in addressing the five asks.</p><p>âUntil today, we have still not received a reply,â Ruiters said. The only responses had been Rubioâs announcement on X of visa restrictions and several media interviews by Bozell in which he had said things âwhich to us donât make senseâ.</p><p>âItâs difficult to understand, because weâre not quite sure why he hasnât said it to us directly,â Ruiters said, adding that he wondered why Bozell had âhas never had the courtesyâ of replying to Ramaphosaâs message, âwhich was not a rejection and not a refusalâ of Trumpâs demands. </p><p>âWe acceded to all the requests in our mind. We might not have said it in the language that they wanted; in the time frame that they wanted. But thatâs because we're a sovereign democratic country.</p><h3>âSA doesnât do things by decreeâ</h3><p>âWeâve got processes that are governed by our Constitution. We have to issue regulations, go through a process of public consultation. We donât do things by decree.â</p><p>Ruiters said he had held several meetings with Bozell over the past several months. Bozell had his cellphone number as well as that of South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer. </p><figure data-id=\"3208599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg\" alt=\"P4 Peter Roelf Interview\" title=\"Roelf Meyer presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May. \bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington/X \" srcset=\"https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/ErJo90w_QBKLvCcADYW16J2izf0=/200x100/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cCDPD8IIe27rU8DaPvJUSkkQalQ=/450x0/smart/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 450w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/hPwNwJFoDgziLOF6BvEPH2JeRbc=/800x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 800w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/cwFpq3CFT1EIwNgznS7m_VJ2Y8Y=/1200x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/OCmj-mMUJJoQ-awDb6zaYo5HswE=/1600x0/smart/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/kEdJ09tGoq7Rzxv4cz4hO0VgQ7Q=/200x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 200w, https://cdn.dailymaverick.co.za/i/AesBZuGz54ENRuJTvD1NEfg--GQ=/400x0/filters:strip_exif()/file/attachments/2995/roelf-meyer-donald-trump-afrikaner-refugee-programme_584585.jpg 400w\" draggable=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\"><figcaption>South Africaâs ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, presents his credentials to US President Donald Trump on 21 May 2026. (\bPhoto: South African Embassy, Washington / X) </figcaption></figure><p>Ruiters said Bozell could have called both of them at any time to discu
47ss whatever problems America might have had with Ramaphosaâs letter, such as SAâs timeframes.</p><blockquote class=\"blockquote\"><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â </p></blockquote><p>Instead, the US had not only taken punitive action, but Bozell had threatened more punitive action (on a post on X last week).</p><p>âAre you trying to resolve this issue or are you trying to escalate this issue?â Ruiters asked of the US.</p><p>Ruiters said SA might disagree with the US demands, but in the interest of maintaining the strategic relationship it was ready to engage. âThe last thing we want [â¦] is job losses, loss of trade, loss of investments.â</p><p>He added that he was sure that Bozell felt the same. âHeâs come across as someone who seems extremely committed to South Africa. So I donât know where this is going.â</p><p>He stressed that the SA government remained ready to sit down and talk with the US to clarify and resolve the issues.</p><p>He said part of the strategic relationship with the US was access to minerals such as the platinum group metals, vanadium and rhodium, which SA had been supplying the US for decades. In his letter to Trump, Ramaphosa had committed himself to continue that supply and to discuss new projects to ensure strong supply chains into the US, while also ensuring SA benefitted by adding value in SA to the critical minerals.</p><p>Ruiters said Ramaphosa had written in his letter to Trump that âwe want our commercial relationship to growâ and had added that there were âsubstantial opportunities to increase South African purchases from the United Statesâ.</p><h3>Trade and exports</h3><p>Ramaphosa had also said that he wanted to grow US exports in both goods and services to South Africa and had underscored that the US was South Africaâs second-largest trading partner overall and its largest services trade partner and the most significant supplier of critical minerals.</p><p>Ramaphosa had also told Trump in the letter that his ambassador, Bozell, had underscored that the reliable supply of the six critical minerals which SA exports to the US was a âkey priority for your administrationâ.</p><p>He had added that this was an area in which SA and US interests were closely aligned and where South Africa could make a direct and meaningful contribution to the economic and national security of the US.</p><p>Ruiters also clarified that the current negotiations were dealing only with US demands about South Africaâs domestic policy and not foreign policy.</p><p>He said when negotiations began last year, the US had had 14 âasksâ. 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